On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 14:32 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 07:23:51PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
>  > is it just me imagining things, or is the RHEL5 HZ value going to be a
>  > regression for userspace; the current rhel5 kernel behavior is that if
>  > userspace asks for a 1ms delay, it gets like a 7ms delay. In RHEL4, the
>  > max delay was 2ms...
> 
> actually, a bit worse it seems.

one thing to note is that this app needs decent timekeeping like an hpet
or a box where rdtsc actually works ;) otherwise you only get garbage
timings (time is then less accurate than the test itself)


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